Los Angeles daily herald., 1887-07-19

granted.
On petition of J. F. Goodnow, ct
al, to have Washington street graded
between Figueroa and Grand Avenue,
so that the space between the curbs
be at least fifteen feet, so as to allow
for sidewalk and rows of trees, for
fifty- two and one-half feet roadway,
recommended that the petitioner be
allowed to grade, and the City Sur
veyor be ordered to give grades of said
street, Adopted.
On petition OF A. C. Schafer ct
al, to grade Main street, between
Washington and jefferson, recon-
mended that the City Attorney draft
resolutions to have the same graded.
Adopted.
Recommended that the work of 7.
J. Stearns, of the grading of Georgia
street, between Alameda and Hewitt,
be accepted. Adopted.
Recommended that the bid of A.
Dallas for grading Pico street be ac-
cepted, adopted.
Present resolution to establish the
grading of Auburn street and Union
avenue, adopted.
STREET PAVING OBsTRUCTIoNIsTs.
The following communication was
received: The undersigned acknowl-
edge the receipt of notices for assess
ments on street improvements, and
we presme that the same are made in
accordance with city charter, section
Is, article 8, but upon actual measure
ment we find the same is not correct.
You can measure at any given point
from curbing to curbing, and when a
railroad track runs on the street make
an allowance for the track and two
feet on each side of the track, and di-
vide on the two frontages, and you
cannot derive the amount of your as
sessment. Please have the Board of
Public Works appoint a day and notify
the property owners and we will con-
vince them of the errors.
I'd. We deem it unjust and unwise
to collect all this amount of money for
work which cannot be finished before
two years, and place the same in trust
for contractors. Times for some of
your taxpayers will be very hard, as
the city taxes, county taxes and
State taxes will shortly have
to be made. Furthermore we
don't desire that more than
one block at any time he fixed any
other way. You will hinder the trai-
fic and trade or your business streets.
We, therefore, request your honorable
body to give notice for the collection
of the assessments only for two blocks
at any one time, and let the contract
or finish each block, and at the same
time your honorable body can make
arrangements with the contractor to
improve the intersections and prepare
crosswalks. Respectfully submitted,
man, L. Polaski, A. w. Edelman,
Domingo Amestoy, Louis Mesmer, j.
We'll, H. Newmark q Co., Samuel
Meyer, ID. Desmond, II. w. Hellman,
S. c. Foy, f. T. McGinnis, Ralph
Leon. Referred to Board of Public
Works and City Attorney with power
to act.
REFERRED WITHOUT COMMENT.
The following communication from
the Board of Trade was referred to the
Board of Health:
Rooms OF THE Los ANGELES BoARD)
OF TRADE.
Los ANGELES, Cal, July 16, 1887
To the Hon., the Mayor and Council
Of Los 4ngeles City.
GENTLEMEN: On the 9th of June |
had the honor to address communi-
cation to your honorable body, in be-
half of the Directors of this Board, in
which your attention was called to the
inefficient manner in which the street
sprinkling service was performed, and
accompanying the same by Il series of
questions, to which, by direction, |
ask for detailed reply.
| now have to acknowledge the re-
ceipt of your reply, under date of July
10Th. which quote in full:
OFFICE OF THE CLERK OF THE CoUN-)
Gil, FREEMAN q TEED, CLERK.
Los ANGELES, July II, 1887.
Mr.. 4. VI. Laurence, Secretary Los
angeles Board of Trade:
DEAR SIR: l am directed by the
Council to acknowledge the receipt of
your letter, and ask that you kindly
furnish the names of such streets
which, under the law are required to
be sprinkled and are neglected by the
contractor. Respectfully,
(Signed.) FREEMAN G. TEED,
City Auditor and ex-ofiicio Clerk of
the Council.
By j. +. COOPER, Secretary.
Replying (by instruction from the
Directors of this Board) | have to say /:
1st. That the reply of your honora-
bic body is not such as the nature of
the questions propounded required, for
the following reasons: 1t is not de-
tailed reply, as respectfully asked for.
1t neither admits or denies on the
part of the Council that the service is
good, bad or Indifferent. 1t does not
state whether the service is adequately
provided with funds, in order that the
work can be efficiently performed or
not. 1t does not state what committee
of your honorable body has the
management of that department. 1t
does not state whether the work is
done by contract or otherwise. II
does not state (if this service is in the
charge of one of the committees OF
your honorable body whether that
committee attends to its duty in this
connection to the satisfaction of the
Council or not.
I'd, That the directors of this
board wish to say that it is not theiI
intention, or desire, to encroach upon
any OF the rights or privileges of the
Council, in the management of the
municipal affairs OF this city, or any
department thereof but your honor
able body is entrusted with certain
duties to perform in connection with
their proper and efficient administra'
ton, and they claim the privilege Of
calling your attention to any case OF q
poorly or badly managed department
that may exist; and they again re-
spectfully assert, as a general PROPOSE
ton, (without at this time making any
specific assertions) that the stree
shrinking service is inadeuuate to the